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I found it interesting that the bettors who threatened the journalist accused him of being motivated to manipulate the market. The journalist was motivated to report honestly, the …

The prequel “Message Passing Is Shared Mutable State” makes the claim that highly scrutinized go codebases had just as many message passing bugs (using go channels) as shared memor…

At another BigCo I am familiar with any external communications must go through a special review to make sure no secrets are being leaked, or exposes the company to legal or PR iss…

It raises an interesting point. Code review is as much about educating the author of the code as much as ensuring the quality of the code. Why invest time providing feedback to a b…

It is a classic cooperation problem. Perhaps not prisoners dilemma. Perhaps not at individual scale. Probably tragedy of the commons. Cooperation is not consuming fossil fuels. Def…

The Russia reference doesn’t seem forced since the explanation for increased abandonments is attempts to skirt sanctions against Russian.

I think a lot of web services talk about reliability in terms of uptime (e.g. down for less than 5 minutes a year) but in reality operate on failure ratios (less than 0.001% of req…

One might even say that hyperlinks are the engine of application state.

Can you share more about education in the USSR? My impression is that for all its faults, education is one area where the USSR excelled, with very high standards and outcomes.

The distinction in the article really is between calling malloc for every added node in your data structure (“pointer”) or using the pre-allocated memory in the next element of an …

Treatment plant is optional.

California has the opportunity to be a beacon in North America for environmental and climate action e.g. by expanding solar production, finishing the CAHSR, and other projects like…

A telnet terminal isn’t a terminal by this logic because the text isn’t rendered on the server. A telnet server sends data to your device and your device renders it.

I believe you are interpreting “business need” as “commercial need” when I think it’s more like “what is your business here?” Purely anecdotal, but when I visited Moffett Federal A…

It’s like the symbiotic relationship between humans and livestock.

What knowledge are you trying to impart with this fact? Do CSB recommendations inform policy? Do CSB recommendations get implemented? Do CSB recommendations when implemented increa…

3 republicans are quoted in the article defending the proposal. Is there a better argument that the article didn’t quote?

Maybe the target audience doesn’t need to be reminded, but benzene is really toxic and dangerous and it’s odd the article doesn’t mention that.

I have experience with token bucket and leaky bucket (or at least a variation where a request leaves the bucket when the server is done processing it) to prevent overload of backen…

What percentage of tax filers have a single W-2, maybe a 1099, and take the standard deduction? If I had to guess, 80%.

I am curious what other factors were at play in those battles. It seems like first, Libya had no air support as western allies grounded Libya’s Air Force, second Libya did not have…

Is that really the wrong decision for a technologically advanced and industrialized nation like Australia, though? If you can logistically afford to field an M1 Abrams you are goin…

> CL Googler identified.

One letter increments wouldn’t work because each commit has to leave the program correct. For example committing the first f of a for loop would leave the code with a syntax error.…